Christopher Silver

What are you presenting on?

Looks great!

One of my department's many upcoming events in Montreal. The Levites Annual Lecture 2025: “Amateur Films and Sephardi Joy: A Global Spin” with Sarah Abrevaya Stein (UCLA). Sep. 15 / 5:30 pm / McGill University. Details and RSVP here: www.mcgill.ca/arts/channel...

How long is the exhibit up for? I’m going to be in NYC the first week of July.

Call for Proposals
"KlezKanada and the Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies at Concordia University are convening a Yiddish Dance Conference in Montreal from August 27-29, 2025. The event will include panels, discussion sessions, practice-based workshops, and evening community events."

Sending this around one last time. If you know of any Yiddishists...we're hiring!

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Tomorrow in-person in Newcastle and online for everyone. "North African History at 78 Rotations Per Minute."

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Some good news for Yiddishists. My department is in the process of rebuilding our Yiddish program at McGill and looking for a course lecturer to teach 2-2 in 2025-2026. Our students are wonderful. If you have any questions at all, please reach out to me. mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree...

Located in one of the world’s great multicultural and multilingual cities, McGill University is internationally recognized for its excellence as a leading institution of higher education and research. For nearly 200 years, through the work of dedicated people, McGill has been breaking ground in diverse fields and contributing solutions to some of the world’s most significant issues. McGillians are proud to be part of a community that is both global and local, inspired by challenge and committed to shaping a better future. McGill received a Platinum STARS rating in sustainability, is among Canada’s greenest employers, and is a top Montreal Employer. Grandescunt Aucta Labore. By work, all things increase and grow. Find a sense of purpose. Develop your future. Join us today.

Some good news for Yiddishists. My department is in the process of rebuilding our Yiddish program at McGill and looking for a course lecturer to teach 2-2 in 2025-2026. Our students are wonderful. If you have any questions at all, please reach out to me. mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree...

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Doing my first listening session in a while as part of the Resounding Diasporic Sonic Worlds exhibit in Newcastle. In-person and online. Please spread the word. Also, let me know if you have any requests!

(S+) Baidaphon: Wie die Schallplatten mit der Gazelle das Berlin der Zwanzigerjahre eroberten In der Weimarer Republik pulsiert das Leben in Berlin. Die Stadt wird zum Magnet für die arabischsprachige Diaspora. Mittendrin: Michel Baida aus dem Libanon, der mit seinem Indie-Label große Erfolge ...

The Baidaphon label getting some much deserved attention in Der Spiegel. www.spiegel.de/geschichte/b...

Iran Amplified: 100 Years of Music and Society Edited by Nahid Siamdoust and H.E. Chehabi

A book I very much cannot wait to read and teach. Out with @harvardpress.bsky.social this December! www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

NYC friends, this talks tomorrow sounds tremendous!

Tomorrow in NYC.

What a day in Rabat. Honored to have shared the stage with the indefatigable Khalid Ben Srhir and other scholars who engaged deeply with my work (which is itself indebted to their work). A privilege to talk about books these days––including ones which deal with musical pasts and possible futures.

Rabat and Casa this week. Please send recommendations :)

Want to put this out there again (given everything). If anyone is interested in pursuing an MA or PhD at the intersection of Jewish and Middle Eastern/North African Studies in Montreal (at McGill), please be in touch. We’re building something special here.

I’m so sorry, Terry.

Honored to be giving this talk––"Sounds, Silences, and Echoes: Listening for World War II and the Holocaust from North Africa"––at FIT in NYC on April 22. Please feel free to share.

Heading to Casablanca and Rabat in a few weeks and it’s been a minute since I was last there. Looking for recs of any and all kinds (archives, bookstores, restaurants, cafes). Please feel free to send my way.

The privilege of a lifetime. Next month, I will travel to Morocco to present the Arabic translation of "Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music across Twentieth-Century North Africa" at the Rabat International Book Fair.

Exciting news! Hanan Hammad’s exploration of Layla Murad with @stanfordpress.bsky.social will soon appear in Arabic with al-Kotob Khan.

Looking forward to presenting "An Ethereal Trail: Toward a Musical Biography of Salim Halali" at the Ottoman Auralities seminar series tomorrow (18 Feb). More details in link: ottomanauralities.com/seminar-seri...

Any recommendations for books or articles on reel to reel recording?

On the turntable tonight. The Girl on a Motorcycle—released on the Tetragrammaton label. RIP, Marianne.

علي حسين 14h • 0 صباح الكتب لم تتبن جميع الشخصيات العامة المصرية وجهة نظر سوداء وبيضاء عندما يتعلق الأمر بنجم الكاسيت احمد عدوية . كان نجيب محفوظ من بين أولئك الذين تبنوا موقفا فارقا بقدر . في بعض الأحيان أنتقد الحائز على جائزة نوبل أغاني عدوية بسبب " تفاهتها" و " فظاظتها " وهما صفتان ، ، كما زعم ، أدتا إلى جعل أغانيه " أبعد ما تكون عن الأناقة" ، ولكن في لحظات أخرى يقر الأديب ب" صوته القوي المشحون بالشجن". كذلك لم يكن عبد الوهاب يكره عدوية ، لكنه أصر على أن موسيقاه ستفقد صداها . آندرو سايمون " إعلام الجماهير .. ثقافة الكاسيت في مصر " آندرو سايمون إعلام الجماهير ثقافة الكاسيت في مصر الرجماء بدر الرفاعي دار الشروق

To see this story finally out in the world in Arabic, and to have readers who experienced Egypt’s cassette culture first-hand engage with it, is truly something else. These photos and exchanges mean so much to me.

Daté for sure mais vraiment intéressant aussi. Merci, Morgan!

YouTube video by INA Paris Vintage 1969 : Les gens de Barbès | Archive INA

Ce documentaire de l’ORTF, « Paris arabe et ses cinémas », pourra peut-être t’intéresser : m.youtube.com/watch?v=r0vT.... (trigger warning : c’est daté…)

Friend from Paris just gifted me these VHS tapes of Egyptian films released for the French market. There’s a history of distribution and audience to be written here.

What a great initiative! Tell us more about the book club!